„ Duke of, 142
,, House, 142, 145
Montague, Edward, 81
,, “Lady Mary Wortley, 85
“Monthly Recorder,” 70
Moravian Burial Ground, 53
,, Chapel, 54, 58
Moravians, The, 58, 61
More, Sir Thomas: his house, 34; its site, 37; its gardens, 37; its
gatehouse, 38, 52; the “newe buildinge,” 39, 133; his religious zeal, 39;
his wit, 40; his “Utopia,” 41; his family and friends, 40, 41; his
career, 46, 47; his downfall, 42; death, 43; grave, 44; monument, 151,
153; existing relics of, 52–54, 112; portraits of, 47, 48; quotations
from, 37, 38, 40; mentioned, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 47–49, 53, 54, 57, 58,
94, 112, 113, 119, 133, 151, 153, 174
Moricæ, The, 41
Morten, Cardinal, 46
Munden, Vice-Admiral, 121
Museum, British, 33, 57, 78, 120
Myddleton, Sir Hugh, 69
* * * * *
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, 48, 92
New England, 125, 126
„ Inn, 46
„ River, 14, 69
Newgate, 79
Newton, Sir Isaac, 119, 177
“Niagara, Shooting,” 138
Norfolk, Duchess of, 34
Norfolk, Duke of, 39
Normans, The, 19, 28
North American Colonies, 122
Northumberland, Duchess of, 155
Nostell Priory, 48
* * * * *
OAKLEY Street, 113, 126, 131
Oak-Apple Day, 75
Offa, King, 33
Old Church, Chelsea, 24, 44, 53, 113, 134, 151
Old Magpye Stairs, 20
Oldcoates, 131
Orford, Earl of, 81
Ormond Row, 89
Ossulston, Hundred of, 33
Oxford, 46, 134, 146
* * * * *
PARADISE ROW, 86–89, 93, 98
Parr, Catherine, 115–118
Paulton Terrace, 150
Paultons Square, 134, 150
Pelham, Earl of, 88
Penn, Granville, 62
,, William, 62
Pennsylvania, 58, 61, 62
Pepys, Samuel, 19, 67, 81, 88, 102, 111
Petersham, Lady Caroline, 79
Pimlico, 23
,, Road, 97
Piozzi, Mrs., 133
Poet’s Corner, 93
Poictiers, 34
Polyphilus, 101
Pope, Alexander, 51, 52, 85, 166
Pound Lane, 20
Pretender, The, 66
Prince Rupert, 69, 70
“Prince of Wales,” The, 132
Putney, 150, 162
Pym, 177
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QUEEN Anne Architecture, 18, 28
,, „ Street, 170
„ Elizabeth’s Place, 149
Queen’s Elm, 32
„ House, 109, 112, 114
„ Road, 87, 98, 102
* * * * *
RADNOR, Earl of, 88
„ Street, 88
“Rambler,” The, 101
Ranelagh, Earl of, 77, 78, 81
„ Gardens, 77, 79, 80
„ House, 78, 80, 81
„ Stairs, 20
Reade, Charles, 13
Rectory, Chelsea, 145
Red Lion Passage, 80
Reformation, The, 157
Renatus, Christian, 54
Restoration, The, 50, 62, 68, 75
Reuss, Countess, 57
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 27, 91, 160
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 79
Ricci, Sebastian, 74
Richard III., 34
Richmond, 84
Robarte, Lord, 88
Roberts, Miss, 31
Robinson’s Lane, 88
Rochester, Earl of, 87, 91, 98
“Roderick Random,” 138
Romans, The, 19, 28
Roper, Margaret, 43, 45, 46
„ William, 38, 133
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 109, 114, 178
„ House, The, 109, 112
Royal Academy, 109
„ Hospital, 78
„ Society, 69, 119
Rupert, Prince, 69, 70
* * * * *
ST. ALBANS, Duke of, 87
„ Dunstan’s, Canterbury, 45
„ ,, in the West, 134
„ Evremond, 86, 92, 93, 122, 178
„ George’s Workhouse, 177
„ James’s Palace, 113
,, ,, Park, 20, 93
,, ,, Street, 113
„ Katherine’s Docks, 20
St. Lawrence, Old Jewry, 46
„ Loo, Sir William, 130
„ Luke’s, Chelsea, 145, 146
„ Mary’s, Battersea, 165
„ Paul’s, 69, 170
,, ,, School, 41
Sackville, Thomas, 49
Salisbury, Earl of, 50
Saltero, Don, 121
“Saltero’s, Don,” 122, 125, 126
Sandford Manor House, 63, 65
Sand’s End, 31, 63, 65
Sandwich, Earl of, 81, 86, 88
School of Discipline, 90
„ Duke of York’s, 95
Scott, Sir Walter, 142
Seddon, John P., 109
Selwyn, George, 79
Sepoy Mutiny, 75
Sèvres, 132
Seymour, Admiral, 115–117
Shadwell, Sir John, 177
,, Thomas, 159
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 177
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 32, 178
Shore, Jane, 34
Shrewsbury, Countess of, 131
,, Earl of, 129, 130
„ House, 129, 131
Sidney, Sir Philip, 155
“Slaves of Virtue,” 58
Sloane, Elizabeth, 120
„ Hans, House, 106
,, ,, Sir, 52, 58, 101, 102, 118–120, 122, 159, 177
„ Square, 96, 119
,, Street, 96, 178
Smith Street, 89
Smollett, Tobias, 24, 80, 94, 138, 141, 142
Society of Apothecaries, 101
,, Royal, 69, 119
Somerset, the Protector, 117
_Spectator_, The, 80
Spenser, Edmund, 63
Spilsberg, Convent of, 39
Spraggs, John, 159
Spring Gardens, 79
Stanley, Dean, 152
,, House, 17, 63
“Steenie,” 50, 174
“Stella,” 24, 97
Steele, Sir Richard, 23, 94, 95, 122, 125, 178
Sterne, Laurence, 79, 141
Strype, John, 52
Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, 24
Sunderland, Lady, 51
Swan House, 102
„ “Walk,” 98
“Swan, Old,” 102, 105
“Swan,” The, 19, 105
Swift, Jonathan, 24, 83, 84, 97, 166, 177
* * * * *
TANGIERS, 69
_Tatler_, The, 23, 95, 122
Taverns:
Aquatic Stores, 169
Black Horse, 129
Chelsea Pensioner, 89
Don Saltero’s, 122, 125, 126
Duke’s Head, 89
Magpie and Stump, 126, 130
Nell Gwynne, 66
Prince of Wales, 132
Swan, 19, 105
„ Old, 102, 105
World’s End, 169
Thackeray, 65, 83
Thames, The, 18, 31, 37, 38, 44, 162, 169, 178
Thames Watermen, 105
Thomson, James, 44
Threadneedle Street, 46
Tite Street, 17, 98
Tothill Street, 155
Tours, Archbishop of, 102
Tower, 42, 50, 116, 154, 165
„ Chapel, 44
„ Hill, 43
,, Wharf, 43
“Tracts and Letters,” 153
Trinobantes, 20
Turenne, 93
Turner, 165, 169, 170, 178
Twickenham, 85
Tyndale, 153
* * * * *
VALE, The, 27
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 83
Vanhomrigh, Mrs., 24
Vauxhall, 78
Verrio, 165
Versailles, 111
Victoria Hospital for Children, 98
Village of Palaces, 17
Villars, Marshall, 161
Villiers, George, 50, 51
Voltaire, 92, 166
* * * * *
WALLER, Edmund, 111
Walpole, Horace, 78, 84
„ House, 17, 81, 84, 166
,, Lady, 85
„ Sir Robert, 79, 81–85, 89, 166
„ Street, 81
Walton, Isaac, 134, 178
Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames, 149
Warwick, Earl of, 34, 65
Waterloo, 74
Wellington, Duke of, 73, 162
Westminster, 20, 33, 47, 155
,, Hall, 43
Whitehall, 20, 129
William and Mary, 37, 73
William Rufus’s Hall, 47
Willis, N. P., 14
Wilkes, John, 141
Wilkie, the Painter, 74
Winchelsea, Lord, 162
Winchester, Bishop of, 131
,, Marquis of, 145
Windsor Castle, 48
Winstanley, 118
Wolsey, Cardinal, 38, 42, 113
Woodfall, 159
Worcester, Battle of, 68
,, College, Oxford, 146
,, Marquis of, 52
“World’s End,” The, 169
Wren, Sir Christopher, 73, 110
Wyatt family, The, 149
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YORKSHIRE, 79
* * * * *
ZIMRI, 50
Zinzendorf, Count, 54, 57, 58
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UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON.
FOOTNOTES.
{26} This illustration and those on pages 114 and 123, have been made
from photographs by J. Hedderly, and are admirable specimens of the many
taken by him during a long and laborious life, and which have genuine
artistic merit as well as historic value in their preservation of the
features of Old Chelsea. Hedderly’s was the curious case of a man living
for fifty years in daily contact with the ancient and the odd, and yet
always keen to appreciate it and accurate in seizing it. On his death,
in 1885, his plates went to his daughter, and the photographs can be
bought from George White, Printer, 396, King’s Road, just at the end of
Park Walk: by whose permission these photographs have been re-drawn.
{31} One of her school-mates here, by the way, was that Miss Roberts who
wrote so well about India; another was Lady Caroline Lamb, heroine of the
scissors-stabbing scene for Byron’s sake. And among other scholars here
at other times we find names famous in later life, as that of Lady
Bulwer, of Mrs. S. C. Hall, of Miss Mary Russell Mitford. The latter
lady lived for several years after her school days at No. 33, Hans Place.
In No. 41 lodged Percy Bysshe Shelley, at one time. These two last-named
houses have been raised two stories, and renewed; while Nos. 22 and 25
have been recently torn down and rebuilt. Thus every house in Hans Place
having historic association has been ruined for us, and others of no
interest from our point of view in this stroll are left intact in their
age—a queer fatality which I find to have pursued too many buildings of
old London!
{48} The painting in the National Portrait Gallery is a copy by an
unknown—withal a skilful—hand, of Holbein’s crayon sketch, now in Windsor
Castle. Its most striking feature is More’s mouth: these lips seem to
speak to us at once with sweetness and with sternness.
{57} In our reproduction of this rare print in the British Museum of
about the year 1682, Lindsey House is seen on the river bank at the
extreme left; behind it is a building in the Dutch style, concerning
which I can find no record anywhere; More’s mansion stands on the slope
half-way up to King’s Road, in the midst of its “great extent of
profitable garden and pleasure ground;” behind and to its left are the
stables and out-buildings. Just beyond King’s Road, on the left, may be
seen the small settlement named then and known now as “Little Chelsea.”
In the far distance, rise, on their wooded slopes, Holland, Camden, and
Kensington Houses. The gate-house of Inigo Jones shows plainly towards
the front, and from it the broad walk—now Beaufort Street—leads to the
river and the ferry, just at the spot where now springs Battersea Bridge.
{58} You may see a picture of such a scene—the sermon to a group of
negroes—in the old Moravian chapel in Fetter Lane. Here, too, are many
relics of interest of the man: his chair, with claw feet and curious
carvings; his queer old-German Hymn-book, printed in 1566, with metal
clasps and corners; and his portrait, life-size and in oil.
{80} There lies on my desk, as I write, a copper token, which I lately
picked up in a shabby shop of Red Lion Passage, High Holborn. It is
about the size of a penny piece, and on it is stamped “RANELAGH HOUSE,
1745:” these raised letters as clearly cut as on the day when coined. It
pleases me to wonder which and how many of the men I mention above may
have handed in this piece at the entrance gate.
{91} Henri, Marquis of Ruvigny, fled from France on the Revocation of
the Edict of Nantes, came to England, was here naturalized, and received
the title of Count of Galloway.
{109} In the embankment garden, just in front, has lately been placed a
memorial to the poet and painter: his bust in bronze modelled by Ford
Madox Brown, the painter, surmounting a graceful drinking fountain
designed by John P. Seddon, the architect; both life-long friends of
Rossetti.
{125} This house was kept, in 1790, by a Mrs. Mary Jacob, a New England
woman, and I have seen a letter from her to her brother in America, in
which she says, in her old-fashioned spelling: “I keap a Coffe Hous,
which I can Scarcely macke a bit of Bred for myself, but it Ennabels me
to keep a home for my Sons.” This letter is prized as a relic by the
family, none of whom have any notion of how “Polly Cummings”—her maiden
name in New England—found her way to Chelsea and to Don Saltero’s!
{160} I quote this sentence from a letter sent to me by the Reverend R.
H. Davies, Incumbent of the Old Church, Chelsea, to whom I am indebted
for courtesies in this connection: “To my mind, there is no doubt that
his grave is somewhere in the open part of the churchyard; but, as the
grave-stone has disappeared, it would be too great a work to excavate the
whole with the hope of finding the coffin-plate.”